The Scarlet Letter by Annie Yang

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Written for the time frame of the 1600s after the salem witch trials

sfeller11 — 2025-02-11 18:59:11 UTC

The denomination of Puritans was created when the people of the Church of England believed it was too similar to the Roman Catholic Church and should eliminate ceremonies and practices not rooted in the Bible.

eweerakkody1 — 2025-02-11 18:59:30 UTC

Born July 4, 1804

Died- May 19 1864

Themes

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-Personal and public truth

-Redemption and forgiveness

-Nature of evil

-Sexism

-sin

-guilt

-Hypocrisy

-Identity

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Nathaniel Hawthorne attended Bowdoin college and studied composotion in hopes to become a successful writer

sfeller11 — 2025-02-11 19:03:24 UTC

Puritans thought that they had a "direct covenant" with god making them think that their denomination of the christian religion the only correct one.

Scarlet Letter

dsaqui1 — 2025-02-11 19:04:04 UTC

Symbolizes the sin of adultery, it later becomes a symbol for loneliness, alientation, and isolation. Then in the end becomes a symbol for ability, admirable, and angel.

sfeller11 — 2025-02-11 19:04:42 UTC

ayang119 — 2025-02-11 19:04:58 UTC

The Scarlett Letter takes place in 17th-century Boston, Massachusetts in the years of 1642 to 1649. During this time, Massachusetts was not yet a state, as it was before the American Revolution, but rather, it was a colony known as the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Meteor

dsaqui1 — 2025-02-11 19:05:06 UTC

Represents the illumination of truth. Also the love and union Hester and Pearl have for one another even with their secrecy.

eweerakkody1 — 2025-02-11 19:05:18 UTC

Nathaniel hawthorne was born in Salem Massachussets, and growing up hearing about the Salem Witch trials that took place in his town inspired his work of The Scarlet Letter

sfeller11 — 2025-02-11 19:06:27 UTC

Puritans migrated to Northern English colonies in the New World in the 1620s and 1630s.

Population

ayang119 — 2025-02-11 19:08:42 UTC

In the 1640s, Boston was occupied by around 25,000 English settlers, many of which were Puritans refugees who left England for religious freedom due to conflicts with the Anglican Church.

eweerakkody1 — 2025-02-11 19:08:58 UTC

Married to Sophia Hawthorne 1842-1864

eweerakkody1 — 2025-02-11 19:12:24 UTC

Hawthorne was heavily anti-puritan, which contrats with his long line of his families puritan beliefs dating back to his great-great-great grandfather.

sfeller11 — 2025-02-11 19:12:37 UTC

Puritans believe that it supplied ethics that somehow balanced charity and self-discipline.

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Picture of a Puritan church

Government

ayang119 — 2025-02-11 19:14:40 UTC

The inhabitants of Massachusetts received a charter from King Charles I in 1629 which allowed them to initiate trade in New England and establish their own local theocratic government led by church leaders.

Red

dsaqui1 — 2025-02-11 19:15:10 UTC

Symbolizes sin and guilt.

ayang119 — 2025-02-11 19:18:09 UTC

Economy

ayang119 — 2025-02-11 19:23:46 UTC

Initially, colonists relied mainly on European imports and small-scale farming, but in the 1640s the fur trading, lumber, shipbuilding, and fishing industries began to grow, allowing for greater colonial independence.

eweerakkody1 — 2025-02-11 19:29:27 UTC

Nathaniel Hawthornes works focus heavily on Romanticism, especially dark Romanticism. He sheds light on the darkness of humanity at the time.

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ayang119 — 2025-02-25 18:57:05 UTC

"a young clergyman, who had come from one of the great English universities, bringing all the learning of the age into our wild forest-land. His eloquence and religious fervor had already given the earnest of high eminence in his profession." (p. 68-69)

eweerakkody1 — 2025-02-25 19:00:12 UTC

"We have spoken of Pearl's rich and luxuriant beauty ; a beauty that shone with deep and vivid tints;a bright complexion possesing intensity both of depth and glow, and hair already of a deep, glossy brown, and which, in after years, would be nearly akin to black." (p.104)

ayang119 — 2025-02-25 19:03:47 UTC

"He was a person of very striking aspect, with a white, lofty, and impending brow, large, brown, melancholy eyes, and mouth which, unless when he forcibly compressed it, was apt to be tremulous, expressing both nervous sensibility and a vast power of self-restraint." (p. 69)

eweerakkody1 — 2025-02-25 19:05:14 UTC

"She seemed rather an airy sprite, which, after playing its fantastic sports for a little while ups the cottage floor, would flit away wth a mocking smile." (p. 95)

ayang119 — 2025-02-25 19:05:58 UTC

"The young pastor's voice was tremulously sweet, rich, deep, and broken. The feeling that is so evidently manifested, rather than the direct purport of the words, caused it to vibrate within all hearts, and brought the listeners into one accord of sympathy" (70).

dsaqui1 — 2025-02-25 19:06:42 UTC

Said: "It may be,' he replied, "because I will not encounter the dishonor that besmirches the husband of a faithless woman (Hawthorne pg. 79-80)."

Did: "When he found the eyes of Hester Prynne fastened on his own, and saw that she appeared to recognize him, he slowly and calmly raised his finger, made a gesture with it in the air, and laid it on his lips (Hawthorne pg. 63)."

Talked about him:

ayang119 — 2025-02-25 19:07:40 UTC

"Notwithstanding his high native gifts and scholar-like attainments, there was an air about this young minister, -- an apprehensive, a startled, a half-frightened look, -- as of a being who felt himself quite astray and at a loss in the pathway of human existence, and could only be at ease in some seclusion of his own. Therefore, so far as his duties would permit, he trod in the shadowy bypaths, and thus kept himself simple and childlike; coming forth, when occasion was, with a freshness, and fragrance, and dewy purity of thought, which, as many people said, affected them like the speech of an angel." (p. 69)

sfeller11 — 2025-02-25 19:07:44 UTC

Hester Prynne is described as a tall, beautiful woman with dark, thick hair. Even though she has a sad look on her face, she also stands out with the scarlet letter A on her chest.

"The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance. She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off sunshine." Pg. 55

"And as for the red letter, which she hath stitched so curiously, I'll bestow a rag of mine own rheumatic flannel." Pg. 56

eweerakkody1 — 2025-02-25 19:08:15 UTC

"Nothing was more remarkable than th einstinct, as it seemed, with which the child comprehended her loneliness; the destiny that had drawn an inviolable circle round about her; the whole peculiarity, in short, of her position in respect to other children." (p.97)

Prison Door

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Rose Bush

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The season spring

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Symbolizes the rebirth of Hester and her new found happiness and freedom

The Black Man

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Symbolizes chillingworth descent into becoming an "ugly" soul.

Removing Scarlet Letter

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Removing the weight that she holds upon herself